DAY 1

Arrive Moscow

On arrival at Moscow airport you will be met your English-speaking guide and driver for the transfer into the hotel where you will be assisted with check-in.

Remainder of the day is at leisure.

Overnight: Baltchug Kempinski hotel

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DAY 2

Moscow

Today have full day sightseeing tour with your private guide. The walking tour will start with a visit to the Kremlin where you will visit the State Armoury, the oldest museum in Russia and home to a collection of precious stones, masterpieces of 18th and 19th century jewellery, priceless artifacts dating as far as the 14th century as well as impressive collection of carriages from the best Russian and European masters, precious fabrics, and royal gala clothes. The Armoury is famous also for its fine collection of Faberge eggs. 

Afterwards continue your tour of the Kremlin Territory. For centuries, the Kremlin has been witness to many famous and tragic events in Russia’s past and is a treasure trove of Russian history. Visit two of the Kremlin’s cathedrals: Assumption, the place of coronations and the burial church of religious leaders, and Archangel, the royal burial church. 

After the Kremlin visit your private guide will take you on to the magnificent Red Square where you can have lunch at leisure. After lunch enjoy a half day sightseeing tour of the Red Square. The focal point of the city, the square lies on the east wall of the Kremlin surrounded by a thick red fortress wall containing 20 towers all at various intervals. Originally allotted for a market, the square itself appeared around the end of the 15th century when Ivan III ordered all wooden buildings in the vicinity of the Kremlin to be demolished to protect the Kremlin from fires. You might wish to visit St. Basil Cathedral, built in times of Ivan the Terrible. There is a legend around it that the Tsar ordered to blind the architects so they would never create anything as beautiful as this Cathedral. 

Conclude your sightseeing for today with a visit to the famous Moscow metro which is considered to be the most beautiful in the world with its chandeliers, mosaics, paintings, bronze statues. Make a wish at the station “Ploshad Revolutsii” (Square of Revolution) where all schoolchildren and students wanting to pass the exams with flying colors go to. The guide will tell you all mysterious stories about this huge underground city.

Evening at leisure. You may wish to attend an opera or a ballet at the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre, the country’s oldest and grandest theatre, or enjoy dinner in one of the numerous Moscow restaurants.

Overnight: Baltchug Kempinski hotel
Meal Plan: B

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DAY 3

Moscow

Today travel with your private vehicle and guide to the New Maiden Convent, one of the city's most beautiful architectural ensembles with a long history behind its toothed walls. Founded as a fortress in the south of Moscow, it gradually became a place of political activity. The adjacent New Maiden Cemetery is Moscow's most prestigious resting place after the Kremlin wall, containing the tombs of Chekhov, Shostakovich, Stanislavsky, Khrushchev, Gromyko, Molotov, Raisa Gorbachev and others. See some more sites of the city before your independent lunch.

In the afternoon continue to the Tretyakov Gallery, containing the best collection of Russian art in the world. Reopened in 1995 after a nine-year renovation, it houses an outstanding display of pre-revolutionary Russian art as well as an extensive collection of icons. As a special treat, enjoy a concert by a Russian Orthodox choir in the near-by Church of St. Nickolas the Miracle Maker.
 

Overnight: Baltchug Kempinski hotel
Meal Plan: B

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DAY 4

Depart Moscow

Meal Plan: B

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